Famous Deaths on 3 Sep

Famous Deaths on 3 Sep

1402 - Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan (b. 1351)
1420 - Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, regent of Scotland
1592 - Robert Greene, English writer (b. 1558)
1634 - Edward Coke, English colonial entrepreneur and jurist (b. 1552)
1653 - Claudius Salmasius, French classical scholar (b. 1588)
1658 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England (b. 1599)
1662 - William Lenthall, English politician (b. 1591)
1720 - Henri de Massue, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1648)\
1722 - Ivan Skoropadsky, Hetman of Ukraine (b. 1646)
1729 - Jean Hardouin, French scholar (b. 1646)
1766 - Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (b. 1686)
1808 - John Montgomery, American Continental Congressman (b. 1722)
1857 - John McLoughlin, Canadian trapper (b. 1784)
1860 - Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (b. 1804)
1866 - Konstantin Flavitsky, Russian painter (b. 1830)
1883 - Ivan Turgenev, Russian author (b. 1818)
1886 - William W. Snow, American politician (b. 1812)
1893 - James Harrison, Scottish-born inventor (b. 1816)
1903 - Joseph Skipsey, British poet (b. 1832)
1914 - Albéric Magnard, French composer (b. 1865)
1936 - Nikita Balieff, Armenian vaudevillian and impressario (b. 1876 or 1877)
1948 - Edvard Beneš, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1884)
1961 - Robert E. Gross, American businessman (b. 1897)
1962 - E. E. Cummings, American poet (b. 1894)
1963 - Louis MacNeice, Irish poet (b. 1907)
1964 - Stewart Holbrook, American author (b. 1893)
1967 - James Dunn, American actor (b. 1905)
1968 - Isabel Withers, American actress (b. 1896)
1969 - John Lester, American cricketer (b. 1871)
1970 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach (b. 1913)
1970 - "Blind Owl" Wilson, American musician (Canned Heat) (b. 1943)
1974 - Harry Partch, American composer (b. 1901)
1980 - Duncan Renaldo, American actor (b. 1904)
1981 - Alec Waugh, English writer (b. 1898)
1983 - Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (b. 1926)
1987 - Morton Feldman, American composer (b. 1926)
1991 - Frank Capra, American film director (b. 1897)
1994 - Major Lance, American singer (b. 1939)
1994 - Billy Wright, English former footballer (b. 1924)
1994 - James T. Aubrey, American television executive (b. 1918)
1996 - Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Australian artist (b. 1910)
2000 - Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
2001 - Pauline Kael, American film critic (b. 1919)
2001 - Thuy Trang, American actress (b. 1973)
2002 - W. Clement Stone, American entrepreneur (b. 1902)
2003 - Paul Jennings Hill, American anti-abortion murderer (b. 1954)
2005 - Richard S.R. Fitter, British ornithologist and botanist (b. 1913)
2005 - William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924)
2007 - Jane Tomlinson, British charity fund raiser (b. 1964)
2007 - Steve Ryan, American actor (b. 1947)
2007 - Syd Jackson, Māori activist and trade unionist (b. 1939)
2007 - Carter Albrecht, Musician (b. 1973)